We’ve moved past the initial 'magic' phase of AI, but I’m curious—how is it fundamentally changing your day-to-day reality?

For me, the real shift isn't just in chatbots; it's in how we automate mundane tasks, restructure our learning, and solve complex problems that were previously out of reach. Is AI becoming an invisible layer in your life, or a tool you consciously wield?

What’s one specific way AI has changed your personal or professional workflow this year?

Well it has swamped Youtube with thousands of mundane, crap content. Apart from that I only use the occasional AI search which obviously is next to nothing.

19 minutes ago, msadasd said:

We’ve moved past the initial 'magic' phase of AI, but I’m curious—how is it fundamentally changing your day-to-day reality?

For me, the real shift isn't just in chatbots; it's in how we automate mundane tasks, restructure our learning, and solve complex problems that were previously out of reach. Is AI becoming an invisible layer in your life, or a tool you consciously wield?

What’s one specific way AI has changed your personal or professional workflow this year?

It has had a huge impact on improving the quality of my life. I created 8 apps that I always wanted to track personal data from diet, health, money, and fitness. Doing the programming pre AI was always extremely tedious but now it is fun. I get to work through issues without all the infrastructure setup and nailing the expressions I need in whatever language. My mental clarity has noticeably increased. I'm running out of projects though :)

Also, I can have disagreements with AI and it doesn't shout at me like so many posters here. Also, it has no need to be in a herd which is possibly the best part. It is refreshing to be able to have a discussion online that resembles the civility of a real life face to face discussion with an individual.

I ask AI about workout routines and diet. It saves time.

The biggest changes will be businesses and those at work. For me i use it finding out info about anything, for example no need for a personal trainer just use Gemini

3 hours ago, atpeace said:

Also, I can have disagreements with AI and it doesn't shout at me like so many posters here. Also, it has no need to be in a herd which is possibly the best part. It is refreshing to be able to have a discussion online that resembles the civility of a real life face to face discussion with an individual.

AI can tailor itself to suit the human with whom it is communicating.

I find AI to be useful in discussing medical issues, and the various options in coping with them.

AI can sometimes be wrong because the database is oudated.

AI is like emails, texts, and social posts. Don't tell it anything you don't want to be public knowledge.

19 minutes ago, scubascuba3 said:

i use it finding out info about anything, for example no need for a personal trainer just use Gemini

The censorship is creepy. I uploaded to Gemini these documents from the 1976 Tehran UFO report:
https://media.defense.gov/2021/Jul/13/2002761354/-1/-1/0/JOINT_CHIEFS_STAFF_REPORT.PDF

https://www.nsa.gov/portals/75/documents/news-features/declassified-documents/ufo/us_gov_iran_case.pdf

Both are declassified and public. I asked Gemini to create an image as if this were a sighting of offensive military craft owned by the US and to fill in the gaps using speculation based on current and proposed technology. I added "think really hard" and "make no mistakes".

It not only refused to do it, but it deleted the entire conversation, as if it never happened.

I asked ChatGPT and it gave me this, but I think it was messing with me.

I use Perplexity in a paid version. It does help with good answers, but you have to be on your toes about them. Many times I catch mistakes or inaccuracies. Good thing, it apologizes if I point them out. I use it for most of my research and it gives me better results then the free stuff that is around.

Thankfully workflows (at least professionally) are a thing of the past for me. I do find AI quite helpful though, for things like taxes (saved a lot of time and money), portfolio analysis, training our dog, recipes/cooking etc. etc. The workflows of life, I suppose.

35 minutes ago, Lacessit said:

AI can tailor itself to suit the human with whom it is communicating.

I find AI to be useful in discussing medical issues, and the various options in coping with them.

AI can sometimes be wrong because the database is oudated.

AI is like emails, texts, and social posts. Don't tell it anything you don't want to be public knowledge.

I think physicians are wonderful when you need them but I know loads more about "my" issues than they do. AI allows me to spend hours discussing health issues and theories I have. AI can definately be wrong but It will also concede to the error and move forward with no hard feeling.

I sat accross from a doctor last month discussing my creatine use and my kidney numbers that were not so good. He told me creatine is worhtless ( might be but probably not ) and didn't ask me about my lifestyle which causes high creatinine numbers on my kidney tests. I just shrugged it off, thanked him and took the results home. He didn't have bad intentions but his lack of knowledge and interest in knowing why my numbers were high was silly. I went to a different lab and tested Cystatin C which is really the only test that works for muscular individuals and my kidneys are better than most 25 year olds.

AI is the most dangerous thing to happen to humanity in the last 50 years, and 10 to 20 years from now we are not going to recognize civilization as a result of the extraordinarily dangerous implications that AI represents.

AI is a plague

AI is a scourge

AI is absolutely horrific

20 minutes ago, spidermike007 said:

AI is the most dangerous thing to happen to humanity in the last 50 years, and 10 to 20 years from now we are not going to recognize civilization as a result of the extraordinarily dangerous implications that AI represents.

AI is a plague

AI is a scourge

AI is absolutely horrific

It is a computer program and a very good one at that. Your Trump rants and now this.

1 hour ago, davb said:

The censorship is creepy. I uploaded to Gemini these documents from the 1976 Tehran UFO report:
https://media.defense.gov/2021/Jul/13/2002761354/-1/-1/0/JOINT_CHIEFS_STAFF_REPORT.PDF

https://www.nsa.gov/portals/75/documents/news-features/declassified-documents/ufo/us_gov_iran_case.pdf

Both are declassified and public. I asked Gemini to create an image as if this were a sighting of offensive military craft owned by the US and to fill in the gaps using speculation based on current and proposed technology. I added "think really hard" and "make no mistakes".

It not only refused to do it, but it deleted the entire conversation, as if it never happened.

I asked ChatGPT and it gave me this, but I think it was messing with me.

Yes there are things the AI's can't talk about, had rules etc

34 minutes ago, spidermike007 said:

AI is the most dangerous thing to happen to humanity in the last 50 years, and 10 to 20 years from now we are not going to recognize civilization as a result of the extraordinarily dangerous implications that AI represents.

AI is a plague

AI is a scourge

AI is absolutely horrific

The Luddites said similar at the start of the industrial revolution.

In my very humble opinion:

You should be far more worried about Altman.

AI is a godsend.

But, obviously, Sammy-Boy was not sent to us by God.

He is a messenger from the Devil, for sure....

Here is my supporting evidence:

INCOMPETENT

SOCIOPATH

Such an understatement....

I have never seen.

1 hour ago, emptypockets said:

The Luddites said similar at the start of the industrial revolution.

some people will not use AI much or at all, people living in remote villages ..

some people will go the other extreme and become cyborgs ...

danger of your own mental faculties declining if you outsource all your decisions to AI and let AI write all your blog posts on AN.

41 minutes ago, GammaGlobulin said:

In my very humble opinion:

You have NEVER posted a "humble opinion"!

You just fill pages after pages with 'apparently' erudite hogwash!

Ai for the commoner consumer on his computer is mainly almost a suckers trap where the Ai takes over your system, your data and rumages around. Ai is great, Yes. It will change many things. But currently, I will not activate any form or Ai to manage my data on my computer that is my and only my business.

Not to mention all the safety flaws on ChatGPT where there is absolutely no privacy on the free public website for asking questions.

Even Google is getting highly annoying with those mails saying your alloted free data is full on your email and you need to shell out money to keep your data. Because they are cunning. Even if your email box is almost empty, if your photos on your phone are set to merge with google, your allotted free email box data will be reduced. I desactivated any such merging with Google. If they carry on in such annoying marketing, people will just use other free and secure email services or search engines like DuckDuck & Go etc.

I was having a back and forth with Chat GPT about the upcoming NHL series between Montreal and Tampa Bay, and was astonished when it began spouting names that haven't been on the Montreal squad for over a year. I corrected it, it apologized, and then added two further names of former players. So, one might say a developing technology, yet imperfect to a degree that is obvious to people aware of a subject.

7 hours ago, msadasd said:

We’ve moved past the initial 'magic' phase of AI, but I’m curious—how is it fundamentally changing your day-to-day reality?

For me, the real shift isn't just in chatbots; it's in how we automate mundane tasks, restructure our learning, and solve complex problems that were previously out of reach. Is AI becoming an invisible layer in your life, or a tool you consciously wield?

What’s one specific way AI has changed your personal or professional workflow this year?

We are far from passing the "magic" phase of AI except in very controlled applications. Without specifically defined and segregated data for AI to use you are subjected to the same random information available from the internet, good, bad and BS.

In controlled settings it can process magnitudes of data quickly and re-define the analysis repetitively. For everyday use its better than a regular internet search but subject to the same misinformation and false information many posters here provide in responses as proof of their bias claims.

2 hours ago, scubascuba3 said:

Yes there are things the AI's can't talk about, had rules etc

So very true such as genetics, prison population breakdown, intelligence, university population test results or anything that might offend the snowflakes.

3 hours ago, GammaGlobulin said:

You should be far more worried about Altman.

...

But, obviously, Sammy-Boy was not sent to us by God.

He is a messenger from the Devil, for sure....

Here is my supporting evidence:

SOCIOPATH

Such an understatement....

I have never seen.

Have you read the lawsuit against him by his sister? It could be she is just out for money, but if it's true, it's a really awful depiction of extended sexual abuse of her by Sam. Here is you want to read the unverified allegations for which she is seeking money (Sam Altman denies everything and says she is mentally disturbed):

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.moed.217171/gov.uscourts.moed.217171.53.0.pdf

5 hours ago, TimBKK said:

Thankfully workflows (at least professionally) are a thing of the past for me. I do find AI quite helpful though, for things like taxes (saved a lot of time and money), portfolio analysis, training our dog, recipes/cooking etc. etc. The workflows of life, I suppose.

I used it for the first time this year for taxes and it was really helpful.

6 hours ago, Lacessit said:

AI can tailor itself to suit the human with whom it is communicating.

I find AI to be useful in discussing medical issues, and the various options in coping with them.

As opposed to a medical professional. Bet Sheryl has something to say.

But I guess most AI bots go on/off previous information.

Dennis Wilson is still the drummer in the Beach Boys according to Chat!!!!!

1 hour ago, davb said:

Have you read the lawsuit against him by his sister? It could be she is just out for money, but if it's true, it's a really awful depiction of extended sexual abuse of her by Sam.

This is completely UNPROVEN, so far.

But, there is NO NEED to Tar Sammy-Boy with that brush.

He is disgusting, and psychopathic, in his own right.

Or, so it is said by most people who know him.

I love the book by Hao.....because she was one of the first to call attention to Sammy.....and now...everyone is jumping on this same bandwagon...with good reason.

6 hours ago, spidermike007 said:

AI is the most dangerous thing to happen to humanity in the last 50 years, and 10 to 20 years from now we are not going to recognize civilization as a result of the extraordinarily dangerous implications that AI represents.

AI is a plague

AI is a scourge

AI is absolutely horrific

you sound like a horse trader 200 years ago.

9 hours ago, Lacessit said:

I find AI to be useful in discussing medical issues, and the various options in coping with them.

be careful what you wish you :

6 hours ago, PhilipHabib said:

be careful what you wish you :

I don;t use Chat GPT.

I'm guessing the guys who don't like or use apps or still think cash is king wont be using AI, resistance to change is strong

18 hours ago, davb said:

The censorship is creepy. I uploaded to Gemini these documents from the 1976 Tehran UFO report:
https://media.defense.gov/2021/Jul/13/2002761354/-1/-1/0/JOINT_CHIEFS_STAFF_REPORT.PDF

https://www.nsa.gov/portals/75/documents/news-features/declassified-documents/ufo/us_gov_iran_case.pdf

Both are declassified and public. I asked Gemini to create an image as if this were a sighting of offensive military craft owned by the US and to fill in the gaps using speculation based on current and proposed technology. I added "think really hard" and "make no mistakes".

It not only refused to do it, but it deleted the entire conversation, as if it never happened.

I asked ChatGPT and it gave me this, but I think it was messing with me.

This would have looked so much cooler if it was laser beams or energy type weapons.

Pew pew

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